Parking
Legal parking, prohibited zones, and accessible parking rules.
Parking rules in New York follow the federal framework with state-specific limits, distances, and exceptions. The practice questions below are drawn from the New York driver handbook, so they track the state's own rules.
Parking questions, New York edition.
Each question links through to a full explanation, the rule it tests, and a citation back to the manual.
- After you have finished parallel parking, how far may your wheels sit from the curb according to the manual? →
- You pull alongside the vehicle parked in front of your target space. How much room does the manual tell you to leave between the two vehicles before you begin backing in? →
- As you back into a parallel parking space, where does the manual tell you to look? →
- The manual tells you to turn your wheels toward the curb after you park on a hill. What reason does it give? →
- You are backing into a parallel space and your front wheels come opposite the back bumper of the vehicle ahead. What does the manual say to do at that point? →
- Under what condition may you park in a space reserved for people with disabilities? →
- The manual describes striped spaces next to reserved disability parking. What are those striped areas for? →
- The disability-parking law covers off-street shopping-center spaces. What does the manual list as the minimum size that triggers the rule? →
- A driver commits a first-offense violation by parking in a shopping-center space reserved for people with disabilities. If the local municipality has not set a higher penalty, what fine does the manual list? →
- You have finished parallel parking. Under what condition does the manual say you may not open the door on the road side of your vehicle? →
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